Agent Frameworks for Discrete Event Social Simulations

Abstract

Discrete event simulation (DES) provides a means of representing abstract concepts in a traceable and rigorous manner that is particularly useful for gaining insights into complex problems associated with human groups. Current problems facing public policy and military decision makers require a greater understanding of societies and their potential responses, both on group and individual actor levels, to a variety of potential policy decisions. Recent work from the military modeling and simulation communities has underscored the need for social simulations that can provide measures designed to inform decision makers of potential futures. Here we describe the application of concepts from DES to the problem of representing societies and provide a framework and overview of core components necessary for the creation and analysis of discrete event social simulations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA553659

Entities

People

  • Jonathan K. Alt
  • Stephen Lieberman

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Bayesian Networks
  • Communities
  • Education
  • Environment
  • Geography
  • Governments
  • Models
  • Operations Research
  • Psychology
  • Public Policy
  • Scheduling (Production)
  • Simulations
  • Social Networks
  • Societies
  • Sociology

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Economics